Looking for newsbin to unpack into appropriate folder

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Looking for newsbin to unpack into appropriate folder

Postby ebbnflow » Sun Oct 27, 2013 8:31 pm

Hi,

I'm an old user of Newsbin, but havent used v6. What I'm trying to accomplish is simple: I want Newsbin to simply create a folder in my "main download folder" which includes all files associated to a unpacked download, as opposed to simply dumping all files into this "main download folder without first placing them in a folder. I could of sworn this action was a simple tick box in other versions, but for the life of me I cant get it working in v6.

Many thanks!

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Re: Looking for newsbin to unpack into appropriate folder

Postby Quade » Sun Oct 27, 2013 10:24 pm

How are you downloading? NZB's, Search or headers?
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Re: Looking for newsbin to unpack into appropriate folder

Postby itimpi » Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:52 am

The way you define Download paths in the latest versions of Newsbin is described here.
The Newsbin Online documentation
The Usenettools for tutorials, useful information and links
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Re: Looking for newsbin to unpack into appropriate folder

Postby ebbnflow » Mon Oct 28, 2013 2:31 pm

So I think may not have done a great job at describing my issue. I have my paths defined as I want them, my issue is that I want a new subdirectory in \downloads directory for every completed download. At the moment, if the completed download is unrared, I see all of its files, but they're just dumped into the download directory without being organized into their own subdir.
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Re: Looking for newsbin to unpack into appropriate folder

Postby dexter » Mon Oct 28, 2013 2:49 pm

How do you want the subdirectory named? You just choose the appropriate path variable to get them to be named differently. For example if you want a directory named after the subject of the post after a file is unrared, append the $(SUBJECT) path variable to the unrar download path.
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Re: Looking for newsbin to unpack into appropriate folder

Postby ebbnflow » Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:39 pm

Thank you very much! I was messing around with the variables last night, but didnt do it exactly right. I think the label of "noob" is correctly applied in my case, despite having use older versions of Newsbin for years. Image link not allowed for unregistered users
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Re: Looking for newsbin to unpack into appropriate folder

Postby Quade » Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:01 pm

The paths only apply to newly added downloads. Existing downloads already have their paths set.
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